The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-01-27

NEW 1oKK, January Z6.-At p m.
all the Iongshoremen working by the
hour, employed by the National and
Cunard steamship companies, went on
on strike. They had been at work up
till l o'clock and on going away for
dinner gave no lntimation to their
superintendent that they
DID NOT INTEND TO RETURN
to work. At o'clock, the 'Iongshore-
men employed by the National line,
struck because the company had en-
pIoyed Italians to work in the or in
elevator. Grain had been shipped, it
was said, by non-union men. The
trouble on the Cunard dock was that
the superintendent had taken some of
the old time hands and given them
steady employment at the rate of SIG
per week. The men that worked by
the hour said that the new weekly
men would be eventually u-ta |
COMPELLED TO UNLOAD BARGEs,
or at least that an attempt would be
made to have them do so. The long
shoremen who work for the Providence
line have demanded 80 cents an hour.
They have been getting Is cents. sSome
new men we're taken on, and several
policemen were SEM to see that they
were not molested. The line employs
above 100 time men gand forty weekly
hands, who get 81 per day. An effort
will be made to get the weekly men out
on a strike also. HfYi - NJ
The struggle of the striking 'long7
Il, hot hn- 70 nnrfsa heH
come merged into that of the
| coal hanJI rs, was transferred to
a roi field of wider proportions
| to-day, when it became known
that the knights of Labor had decided
that no coal of any sort should be
handled in the ports of New York by
union men, on the ground that all put
in the harbor now has been put aboard
by non-uniOn men. Thus. the trans
ferring of coal to transatlantic and
coastwise steamships cannot be under
| taken by any union man.
THE SUPPLY OF COAL
to consumers in this city, Brooklyn and
other points around the harbor of New
York cannot be replenished by union
men. The effect of the carrying out of
coal becomes Immediately apparent all
along the river fronts. All ocean and
coastwise steamship lines, with few ex-
ceptions, suddenly found themselves
deserted by the union longshorem
The exceptions were few lines VII.
employ their coal shOvelerS by the week
The order not to handle coal also ex- ,
tends to union men outside the port of
New York. Even
AS FAR AS NEW ORLEANS,
it is said that union ,longshoremea aud
others are under obligations not to bad
vessels with coal. With the succor of
the coal handlers, the longshoremen, it
is stated, could easily force the trans
Atlantic and coastwise steamship lines |
to refuse to handle Old Dominion
freight. The question of ordering gen. !
eral strike of the 'longshoremen is be- !
ing considered, so it is said, by the eX-
ecutiVe board of the Ocean Association |
of the 'Longshoremen's Union, and it |
is Thought to be among the probabili- |
ties that not less than 10000 men will |
be idle tomorrow.
New YORK, January 26.-The execu- |
tive committee of the District Assembly |
40, Knights of Labor. at meeting, to-
day, decided to advise all men en-
ployed in any way in steamships or
about them, slowing or placing their |
cargo or carting or transferring or sup
plying coal, to stop work tor three
days. AS many as can are requested |
to be present at a meeting in Cooper |
Union tomorrow night. which has |
been gotten up; by the leaders of the |
District Assembly 40, to protest
AGAINST THE COAL MANAGERS,
who, they say, are all banded in an !
effort to raise the price of coal to
consumers. AS soon as the executive |
committees action became known,
meetings were held by local assemblies, |
in which are the bag sewers, the coal |
handlers, grain handlers, csulkers. |
tinsmiths, ship carpenters, pump rig
gers, tug boat, deck hands and
engineers, 'longshoremen and railroad
brakemen, and it was decided to act
upon the advice of 40. The statIstician |
OF District Assembly 40 says that there
are upwards of %, 900 men in all of the
local assemblies, but they are not all
elapIoyeed on the North River front.
His computation is that about
SEVENTEEN THOUSAND MEN WILL STOP
WORK.
Probably 800 or 1000 viii be permitted
TO look after the property of the river
front and do such work as is absolutely
necessary The district assembly asked
that all of the II 900 men should remain
attheir homes until the evening, when as
many as.felt disposed might attend the
meeting in Cooper Union. The statis-
tician added that the request of the ex-
ecutiye committee would be rigidly
obeyed. The men had been counselled
and would surely refrain from the use
of violence.
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